BP is an only-too-classic case of privatisation and globalisation in action. Making it hardly, if at all, B anymore. That is the problem. By all means, let Middle America give voice to its long-latent hatred of all that. It would cause all the right dominoes to start to fall. All over the West. And all over the world.
Including in Scotland. This Lockerbie affair exposes the true character of the SNP, often lazily categorised as a party of the Left. In fact, most of its electorate is made up of the sort of people who became Conservatives as the Liberal Party collapsed in the long aftermath of the First World War. People like Margaret Thatcher, and who in fact did very well out of her Premiership, even if they couldn't stand her, hardly a sentiment peculiar to Scotland. They vote for the party best placed to beat the one that they really hate, Labour, which they still see in the terms defined by the right-wing media of the 1980s. Of course, that makes them very much like a lot of Lib Dem voters in the more Labour parts of England.
The Conservative Party has few remaining Tories, but there are still a few for now. The Lib Dems have few remaining Radicals, but there are still a few for now. The less said about what has become of the Labour Party, the better. But the SNP is nothing except the political wing of big business in Scotland, especially banking and oil. In the service of those interests, it will even engineer the release from prison, on wholly specious grounds, of a man whose legal status (I don't believe that he did it, but that is not the present point) remains that of a convicted mass murderer who has withdrawn his appeal.
Such is the sort of faction which devolution was designed to appease, and which it puts in charge of great tracts of public policy across great tracts of the United Kingdom. The alternative is to return to communities of interest among and across the several parts of the United Kingdom, safeguarding and strengthening the Union, and defined by the Welfare State, workers' rights, full employment, a strong Parliament, trade unions, co-operatives, credit unions, mutual guarantee societies, mutual building societies, and nationalised industries. Industries often with the word "British" in their names. For example, British Petroleum.
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Rant, rant, rant.
ReplyDeleteIf the SNP was the party of big business then why is CBI Scotland always criticising it?
Saw the other day that a motion was put in front of the Commons by a Tory MP congratulating the Manx on self-government and calling for guarantees of Manx self-government for anothe 1000 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10584765
This was to mark Manx National Day - Tynwald Day - when the laws passed during the legislative session are promulgated in English and Gaelic.
Bet that makes you mad.
And what about HM's ex-Chief Minister Corkerill. Arrested and questioned by his own police force on suspicion of trying to defraud his own government a few years ago.
Your hateful bigotry never ceases to amaze.
Rant against the Manx for a change. Call for the destruction of Tynwald Hill. Laugh at the recent sad death of First Deemster
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle+of+man-10638381
Call for the destruction of a land which grants 16 year olds the vote and now considers giving them the right to drink.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10608159
Lay siege!!
The Isle of Man has never been part of the United Kingdom.
ReplyDeleteNor has it ever released a convicted mass murderer because an oil company told it to.
Off goes Don Roberto again implying that the SNP is Scotland and Scotland is the SNP.
ReplyDeleteWhy did al-Megrahi want to go back to the country that stitched him up and why did that regime give him a hero's welcome?
On the first point, the SNP has just taken fewer votes than the combined total in Scotland for the Conservatives and the Lib Dems
ReplyDeleteNever underestimate the pull of home, and of course he had nowhere else to go. But as for quite how, when or why he became a hero to the same dictator who had dropped in it in the first place, I do not know. Who can fathom the mind of that man?
Anonymous/Sockpuppet (hope it was washed before being used).
ReplyDeleteSince a) there is no evidence that the Scottish government colluded with BP and b) the British government over the years has propped up God knows how many mass murderers - Saddam for instance, that is a bit rich.
a) I don't know how much more evidence you need.
ReplyDeleteb) Which mass murderer has the British Government ever released from prison on the orders of Saddam Hussein? Or even of BP?
Hmmm, how many Nazis were paroled by the British government. Good question.
ReplyDeleteLets see, Funk who had a line in making gold ingots out of gassed Jews gold fillings. Got life with no suggestion of parole but got paroled with British conivance after 12 years in prison.
Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Reason for parole - compassion. He was ill with diabetes which he deliberately aggravated by putting nine teaspoonfuls of sugar in every hot drink he had in jail so he could get out.
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